‘Lazy, weak, bewitched’ – how stigma stops Uganda’s children from getting help, and what schools can do about it

“Me who is a poor person, do I have the luxury to have depression? No, it is only you who is rich that has the luxury to have depression.”

This statement, shared by a research participant in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, captures a persistent misconception: that depression belongs to wealthy people or those whose lives are comfortable enough to permit emotional vulnerability.